Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SONG OF THE LUSITANIAN BOGEY. Writing well below his Marat/Sade form in this tract against the evils of Portuguese colonialists in Africa, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist: do not play fair. But the cast, members of the newly formed Negro Ensemble Company, infuses the evening with its own talent and humanity...
...next year's senior class will opt for leaving. But along with the fourth House completion, the new rule will uncrowd the dorms, making life more pleasant for all Cliffies...
...revision of Harvard's language requirement, and the proposal that goes to the Faculty next week drips with evidence of a long debate's compromise. The plan to shift the requirement to one full course in the freshman year doesn't follow the HPC's recommendation to see the rule junked completely, nor will it please those who think Harvard already asks too little foreign language knowledge of its undergraduates. But the proposal is a logical and ingenious approach to an impossible situation and therefore deserves Faculty approval...
...need for softening the present rule, which forces many students into two full years of foreign language study, has become increasingly evident. A proliferation of paignant hardship cases has made the administrative board chafe under a strict rule that limits exemptions to those with a medically attested learning disability. And as one language professor wryly noted last week, the rule has helped induce a Cambridge epidemic of that rare disease--strephosymbolia. A subclause of the new plan wisely allows the ad board to excuse a student from the requirement if his instructor says that further language study would...
...Queen's coldhearted preference for profit, says Pope-Hennessy, was everywhere the rule. The pages of his book are crammed with standard excuses: "I confess it's not a thing I like," wrote Richard Drake, who nevertheless stayed with the business for 20 years, "but slaves must be bought and sold. Somebody must do the trading, and why not make hay while the sun shines?" Slavery,was one of God's ways of bringing the heathen to Christianity, it was argued; and besides, slavery helped rid Africa of its well-known criminal element...